The project “FACES” is a photographic project planned over the duration of which the first two experiments took place between January and April 2018 in Calcutta (India) then in Yangon (Burma).
The idea is to make photographic portraits in a particular place over several days to highlight through these portraits the unique spirit of these places and the particularity of the link that brings these people to a specific place in a sort of common destiny. for a moment, a day, a life.
In Yangon, we decided with my Burmese guide, Michael Line, to make several ferry trips on the “Yangon River” that separates the city of Yangon from the other side where to find the small town of Dala, a kind of peripheral district. from the old capital.
The photographic interest was also, as in the Mechua market of Calcutta, to draw up a non-exhaustive “photographic inventory” of the “kinds” of passengers who regularly take this boat trip which lasts about twenty minutes.
It was an opportunity to capture through these passengers the soul of Yangon and feel a link of destiny that brings these people together for a crossing.
So we went back and forth for several mornings to finish before the heat of midday which makes the mercury rise above 40 degrees in this hot season. As in the Mechua market people who take the ferry daily are mostly very photogenic, many use tanaka in the morning to prepare their faces for sunburn
ardent and the drawings and textures thus created on the skins represent infinite patterns.
This ferryboat is one of the privileged places to meet the people of Yangon and surroundings during a crossing. The passengers are very varied: monks, street vendors, children, students, seniors, senior managers, or lawyer, many people borrow one of these boats regularly.
Face Project – Yangon – Part 1
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